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RIAA's Latest Crackdown
Fails to Quell Piracy Debate

By

Lee Gomes Staff Reporter of The Wall Street Journal

Updated Sept. 18, 2003 5:21 p.m. ET

Lee writes: Nothing like a column on music downloading to get readers' juices flowing.

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I have nothing but contempt for the arguments of the people that download music illegally. This moment in time makes more music available to more people than at any point in history. You can carry in a single PDA more music than probably most people heard in a year in most generations before the 1950s. Big enough pockets and you can carry more than most heard in a lifetime. Yet they rationalize that they don't have enough. They...